Peter John Rose (born 8 June 1955) is an

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, memoirist, critic, novelist and editor. For many years he was an academic publisher. Since 2001 he has been editor of ''

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''.

Career

Peter Rose was born in Wangaratta on 8 June 1955, and grew up there. Rose belongs to a famous

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family. His father, Bob, was a celebrated Collingwood player and coach. His brother, Robert (1952–1999), also played for Collingwood and, as a cricketer, opened the batting for Victoria. Rose was educated at

Haileybury, Melbourne (Lift up your hearts) , established = 1892 , type = Independent, co-educational, day school , denomination = , slogan = , principal = Derek Scott , principa ...

and Monash University. Throughout the 1990s Rose was a publisher at Oxford University Press, Australia, where he published a wide range of Oxford reference books and dictionaries. Since 2001 he has been the editor of the ''

''. He has also edited two poetry anthologies. In 2001, Rose published ''Rose Boys'', a family memoir which won the National Biography Award in 2003. ''Rose Boys'' was reissued as a Text Classic in 2013. In 2009 he appeared on the judging panel for the Prime Minister's Literary Awards, and in 2011 he judged the National Biography Award. He has for more than a decade been chairperson of the Robert Rose Foundation, which assists people with spinal cord injuries. An extensive selection of his poetry appears in the Australian Poetry Library. Rose's poetry has won several awards. The collection ''Crimson Crop'', published in 2012, won a

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and has been shortlisted for the 2013 Prime Minister's Literary Award.

Personal life

He has acknowledged his homosexuality, and his work has appeared in the anthology ''Out of the box : contemporary Australian gay and lesbian poets''.Library Thing, ''Out of the box : contemporary Australian gay and lesbian poets''
Retrieved 22 June 2013 He lives in Melbourne.

Bibliography

Poetry

Collections

* * * ''Donatello in Wangaratta'', Hale & Iremonger, 1998 * ''Rattus Rattus: New and Selected Poems'', Salt Publications, 2005 * ''Crimson Crop'', UWA Publishing, 2012 * ''The Subject of Feeling'', UWA Publishing, 2015

List of poems

Memoir

* ''Rose Boys'', Allen & Unwin, 2001 * ''Rose Boys'', Text Classics, 2013

Fiction

* ''A Case of Knives'', Allen & Unwin, 2005 * ''Roddy Parr'', Fourth Estate, 2010, ISN 9780732290276

Anthology

* ''The Best Australian Poems 2007'', Black Inc., 2007 * ''The Best Australian Poems 2008'', Black Inc., 2008

Book and other reviews

References

External links

Collingwood Football Club

Prime Minister's Literary Awards

The Robert Rose Foundation

Australian Poetry Library
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